{"id":10776,"date":"2010-12-13T19:12:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T19:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10776"},"modified":"2011-06-25T20:03:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T20:03:58","slug":"property-rites-the-rhinelander-trial-passing-and-the-protection-of-whiteness-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10776","title":{"rendered":"Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_interdisciplinary_history\/summary\/v041\/41.3.lentz-smith.html\" target=\"_blank\">Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (review)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_interdisciplinary_history\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Interdisciplinary History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_interdisciplinary_history\/toc\/jih.41.3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 41, Number 3<\/a>, Winter 2010<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1530-9169, Print ISSN: 0022-1953<br \/>\npages 478-480<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.duke.edu\/people?subpage=profile&amp;Gurl=%2Faas%2Fhistory&amp;Uil=adl16\" target=\"_blank\">Adriane Lentz-Smith<\/a><\/strong>, Hunt Family Assistant Professor History<br \/>\n<em>Duke Univeristy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In October 1924, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kip_Rhinelander\" target=\"_blank\">Leonard Rhinelander<\/a>, scion of a wealthy and well-established New York family, wed Alice Jones, domestic worker and daughter of a Caribbean-born coachman. Less good-looking than well-appointed, Leonard used his fashionable goods and family fortune to woo Alice\u2014appearing, as one reporter stated, like \u201ca weak-chinned version of the sheiks\u201d. Alice fell for Leonard and the life that he promised, one vastly different from the sturdy working-class existence that she shared with her parents in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Rochelle,_New_York\" target=\"_blank\">New Rochelle<\/a>. After a three-year courtship, they announced their marriage in the society pages, but within a month, the honeymoon ended. The Rhinelanders had initiated an annulment suit, claiming that Alice had defrauded Leonard by hiding her racial lineage. Alice, as their lawyer alleged and the New York press trumpeted, had fooled Leonard into making her his \u201ccolored bride\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3242\" target=\"_blank\">Property Rites<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.edu\/CAS\/History\/people\/~esmith1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smith-Pryor<\/a> uses the Rhinelander trial to weave a narrative of classification, confusion, and cultural dislocation in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jazz_Age\" target=\"_blank\">Jazz Age<\/a>. At once a period&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the review <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_interdisciplinary_history\/v041\/41.3.lentz-smith.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 41, Number 3, Winter 2010 E-ISSN: 1530-9169, Print ISSN: 0022-1953 pages 478-480 Adriane Lentz-Smith, Hunt Family Assistant Professor History Duke Univeristy In October 1924, Leonard Rhinelander, scion of a wealthy and well-established New York family, wed Alice Jones, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,459,8,6462],"tags":[4714,1432,1194,3695,748,1154,1431,1445],"class_list":["post-10776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","tag-adriane-lentz-smith","tag-alice-jones","tag-elizabeth-m-smith-pryor","tag-elizabeth-smith-pryor","tag-journal-of-interdisciplinary-history","tag-leonard-kip-rhinelander","tag-leonard-rhinelander","tag-rhinelander-v-rhinelander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}